Help needed for a project.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:48 pm

Hi.
I am making a big document with lots of snippets made in PB and lots of vectorial, mechanical pieces, etc. figures made with paint and others.
I am making it using wordpad, because i want it to be available for any windows without MS-Office.

Perhaps these questions are easy for some of you:
- Are Wordpad (every version W95, W95B, W98, W98SE, etc.) created .rtf files compatible with MS-Word (all versions)?
- How can i put in Wordpad 'links' to local .exe files in order to launch it from wordpad and return to the wordpad document when exiting from the executeable?

Thanksssss!

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:11 pm

yeah, rtf = rtf

but why not do it in html or pdf? wouldn't that make more sense?

hotlinks are not possible in rtf afaik, but i am known to be wrong now and again

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:34 pm

blueznl wrote:yeah, rtf = rtf

but why not do it in html or pdf? wouldn't that make more sense?

hotlinks are not possible in rtf afaik, but i am known to be wrong now and again

Hotlinks arent possible afaik

I would say you should do it in HTML.
However if you dont need hotlinks or so, rtf isnt a too bad choise. Afterall to view HTML requires internet explorer (or firefox), and PDF is not too good as it requires acrobat reader, and its a hell to start on slow machines. I wouldnt NOT choose that for this!

RTF is the best choise, as the richtext dll follows any windows from 95 and up, and if you do not need links.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:50 pm

Insert -> Object -> Create from file -> Browse to your exe file

Important: Check the box "Link". Click ok.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:02 pm

Thank you guys.
ummmhhh.. that's exactly the answer that i was afraid of hear.
I've never 'touched' html, and i don't like pdf because the reason explained by thefool.
Well, now i am making the apps, and i've almost not started to write the text, so i have some time to decide. But surely i will do it in html.

EDIT: Trond! You are great!!!. I didn't see your post, silly of me!.
It works great. Thank you. I prefer to do it like that instead html. Or in both formats.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:42 pm

Good thing i only wrote afaik

I was thinking that you could do it with objects, however skipped the thought.

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:19 am

RTF is the best choise, as the richtext dll follows any windows from 95 and up,

Actually 3.1 supported RTF, and even most DOS word processors supported RTF files. I even have a Psion PalmtopPC that I bought in 1991 (still works fine) and it reads and writes RTF files.

and its a hell to start on slow machines.

I recently bought the box set of all the Spider-Man comics on CDROM and had to install the newer version of Adobe Reader. On a 1.4Ghz Athlon with 1GB RAM, the new version of Adobe Reader crawls.

okasvi · Post by **okasvi** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:44 am

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pdfspeedup.html

works...